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House on mango street

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She was a horse woman too, born like me in the Chinese year of the horse, which is supposed to be bad luck if you're born female, but she thinks this is a Chinese lie because the Chinese, like the Mexicans, don't like their women strong. Her great-grandmother. She would've liked to have known her, a wild horse of a woman, so wild she wouldn't marry...
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Until Esperanza's great-grandfather threw a sack over her head and carried her off. Just like that, as if she were a fancy chandelier. That's the way he did it. And the story goes she never forgave him. She gazed out the window her whole life, the way so many women sit their sadness on an elbow. Esperanza wonders if she made the best with what she got or was she sorry because she couldn't be all the things she wanted to be...
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